Let's end this month with a pink floral kaleidoscope while I finally finish quilting the QOV quilt.

Guess what we, I mean Tommy, did today? In addition, Tommy has been very busy getting into things that he's not supposed to now that his mobility has improved. Pay back. He is also going up to various cupboards and asking me to open them so he can look inside. It may be a while before he gives me instructions to resume quilting.

How can we all work together to end feline abuse? Yes, it's me Tommy your guest blogger. As you may know, I am a three-legged cat with arthritis in my front leg. So why is it the victim who must be stuck with needles. rubbed with heat prods and fed so many treats I get a stomach ache?  And why can't we just use these "treatments" to get better staff response times? I can only fantasize my revenge...

The purple turtle was hoping to have some other purple friends join him in the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge. But alas. If there are other purple turtles, they must be under all the debris caused by the kittens and mice in the sewing room.

I've modified the pattern since last month. These were the earlier versions of the pattern. Except for gap between head and tail, I'm starting to like the first version the best. I may have to scare the turtles back into their shell before I take their picture.

About a gazillion and four years ago, I started an ocean waves quilt from batiks. There was a "new" method of making half square triangles that involved sewing strips of bias fabrics into yardage. The half square triangles (with bias edges) are cut from this. I don't remember much else. I have lots of these strips sewn together and lots of HSTs, so this will be my first plan of attack for Vicki's HST quilt along.

The trees have turned a lovely saturated spring green as they grow their new leaves.

And the apple tree continues to blossom (its first time), apparently in response to my threats to remove it.

I have been working through iterations of this turtle. Although I like the head coming out of the shell, in the last version the head seemed way to large for the shell. And this time I remembered the tail. But I think it still needs something...like eyes and a mouth.